Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.